GLSEN (pronounced glisten; formerly the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network) is an American education group working to finish discrimination, harassment, and bullying based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression and to immediate LGBT cultural inclusion and awareness in K-12 schools. Founded in 1990 in Boston, Massachusetts, the organization is now headquartered in New York City and has an workplace of public policy primarily based in Washington, D.C.

As of 2018,[replace] there are 39 GLSEN chapters across 26 states that practice 5,000 students, educators, and faculty personnel every year.[1][better source needed] The chapters additionally help greater than 4,000 registered school-based clubs-generally known as gay-straight alliances (GSAs)--which work to handle identify-calling, bullying, and harassment of their faculties. GLSEN also sponsors and participates in a bunch of annual "Days of Action", together with a No Name-Calling Week each January, a Day of Silence every April, and an Ally Week each September. Guided by research reminiscent of its National School Climate Survey, GLSEN has developed assets, lesson plans, classroom materials, and skilled development applications for teachers on the right way to help LGBTQ students.[2][better source needed]

Research shows that in response to bullying and mistreatment, many LGBTQ students keep away from school altogether; this will result in tutorial failure.[3] To fight this problem, GLSEN has advocated for LGBTQ-inclusive anti-bullying laws and insurance policies. GLSEN has additionally worked with the U.S. Departments of Education, Justice, and Health and Human Services to create mannequin insurance policies that assist LGBTQ students and educators. GLSEN has considered their signature legislation to be the Safe Schools Improvement Act and has been honored by the White House as a "Champion of Change".

History[edit]

1990s[edit]

1990[edit]

Kevin Jennings, a high school history teacher in Massachusetts, and Kathy Henderson, Assistant Athletic Director at Phillips Academy, Andover leads a coalition of gay and lesbian educators to form what was then referred to as the Gay and Lesbian Independent School Teacher Network (GLISTN).
1993[edit]

- In Massachusetts, the Governor's Commission launched its report, Making Schools Safe for Gay and Lesbian Youth.
1994[edit]

- GLSTN became a nationwide group with the founding of the first chapter[1] exterior Massachusetts in St. Louis.- GLSTN launches the first LGBT History Month in October with official proclamations from the governors of Connecticut and Massachusetts.
1995[edit]

- GLSTN hired its first full-time staffer, founder and Executive Director Kevin Jennings.- GLSTN accredits chapters for the first time.[1]
1996[edit]

- GLSTN started annual celebration of Day of Silence.
1997[edit]

- GLSTN staged its first nationwide convention in Salt Lake City, Utah, in response to the legislature's effort to forestall the formation of GSAs within the state by banning all pupil teams.- GLSTN changed its identify to GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network) in order to extra mirror the significance of straight educators in shaping protected colleges.- Kevin Jennings meets with President Bill Clinton at the White House to debate anti-LGBT bias in America's colleges-the first meeting of its type within the Executive Office of the United States.
1998[edit]

Out of the Past, a GLSEN-sponsored documentary developed as a resource for highschool history lessons, wins the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and is broadcast nationally on PBS. Eliza Byard, the film's co-producer, would turn out to be GLSEN's Deputy Executive Director in 2001.
1999[edit]

- GLSEN conducts the National School Climate Survey-the primary and only nationwide examine often documenting the experiences of LGBT youth in faculties. The survey is carried out and revealed biennially.- GLSEN, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and a coalition of nationwide education, psychological health, and religious organizations launch Just the Facts about Sexual Orientation and Youth: A Primer for Principals, Educators and school Personnel,[4] which supplies authoritative statements about how "conversion therapy" is harmful to youth. Sixteen years later, President Barack Obama would name for an finish to the follow.[5]
2000s[edit]

2000[edit]

- The Chicago chapter of GLSEN was inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame.[6]
2001[edit]

- Students ask GLSEN to turn out to be the first nationwide sponsor of the Day of Silence. Participation grows from a whole bunch of school college students to 1000's of middle and highschool youth.
2002[edit]

- GLSEN begins a partnership with the National Education Association, which asks college districts to protect LGBTQ college students and staff by adopting policies that protect students from bullying and harassment on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identification/expression.
2003[edit]

- U.S. Representative Linda Sánchez introduces the Safe Schools Improvement Act,[7] an LGBT-inclusive federal anti-bullying invoice that features protections for sexual orientation and gender identification/expression.
2004[edit]

- GLSEN's No Name-Calling Week launches as an annual week of instructional activities geared toward ending identify-calling of every kind.- Vermont becomes the primary state to move an LGBT-inclusive anti-bullying law that features protections on the idea of sexual orientation and gender identity/expression.
2005[edit]

- GLSEN and Harris Interactive launch From Teasing to Torment: School Climate in America, A Survey of scholars and Teachers,[8] the primary national examine of the overall population of secondary students and teachers to address LGBT issues. This examine paperwork disparities between LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ students and finds that LGBT college students were more than 3 times as more likely to not feel safe at school.- GLSEN's Jump-Start National Student Leadership Team develops an concept that turns into the primary Ally Week that is now in colleges nationwide each October.
2006[edit]

- GLSEN launches the "Think Before You Speak" public service announcement initiative with the Ad Council, the nonprofit promoting company's first LGBT-targeted campaign.
2007[edit]

- GLSEN helps develop the brand new York City Department of Education's "Respect for All" initiative.
2008[edit]

Lawrence King is murdered by his eighth-grade classmate at E.O. Green Junior High in Oxnard, California. GLSEN's Day of Silence is held in Larry's honor as students from greater than 8,000 faculties take part.- Lance Bass movies a public service announcement within the GLSEN workplace that is considered greater than 300,000 instances on YouTube.- GLSEN releases, The Principal's Perspective: School Safety, Bullying and Harassment,[9] a report carried out in collaboration with the National Association of Secondary School Principals.
2009[edit]

- Eleven-yr-outdated Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover takes his life after enduring anti-gay bullying at school. His mom, Sirdeaner Walker, becomes a GLSEN spokesperson and later joins GLSEN's National Board of Directors.- GLSEN releases Harsh Realities: The Experiences of Transgender Youth in Our Nation's Schools,[10] the organization's first report that focuses particularly on the experiences of transgender college students. The study finds that transgender youth face a lot larger ranges of harassment and violence than LGB cisgender college students, and because of this, miss extra faculty, obtain decrease grades and feel more remoted from their faculty neighborhood.- GLSEN releases Shared Differences: The Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Students of Color in our Nation's Schools.[11] The study focuses particularly on the school experiences of LGBTQ college students of coloration and supplies perception into the methods during which LGBTQ college students' school experiences differ based on race or ethnicity. The report finds that the vast majority of LGBTQ students of color confronted both LGBTQ-primarily based harassment and race-primarily based harassment in school.
2010s[edit]

2010[edit]

- GLSEN officially launches the Safe Space Campaign,[12] designed to present educators the tools to be visibly supportive allies to LGBTQ college students. The campaign goes on to position a Safe Space Kit in every college within the United States.[quotation wanted]
2011[edit]

- GLSEN's Executive Director Eliza Byard participates in the first-ever United Nations worldwide session to handle anti-LGBT bullying in faculties.- Several representatives from GLSEN attend the White House Conference on Bullying Prevention, urgent for efficient federal motion to address bullying, and highlighting bullying prevention applications and approaches that profit all students.- The White House names GLSEN a "Champion of Change",[13] honoring the organization's two many years of labor to struggle bullying, violence, and stigma directed at LGBTQ individuals in K-12 faculties and for GLSEN's efforts to prevent suicide amongst at-risk youth.- GLSEN, the Anti-Defamation League, and National Public Radio's StoryCorps launch "Unheard Voices", an oral historical past and curriculum mission that can assist educators combine LGBTQ history, folks and issues into their instructional applications.
2012[edit]

- GLSEN releases Strengths and Silences: The Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Students in Rural and Small Town Schools.[14] The report paperwork the experiences of more than 2,300 LGBTQ students who attend secondary faculties in rural areas. Findings show that in comparison with LGBTQ college students in city and suburban areas, LGBTQ students in rural colleges are more seemingly to listen to unfavorable comments about gender expression and sexual orientation; feel unsafe at their faculties attributable to their sexual orientation, gender identification, or gender expression, and experience verbal and bodily harassment and assault due to these traits.- A GuideStar/Philanthropedia survey of one hundred ten consultants on LGBTQ issues names GLSEN one of many country's high three LGBTQ nonprofits making significant contributions on a national stage.- GLSEN companions with the main faculty psychological well being professional associations, the National Association of School Psychologists, the American School Counselors Association, the varsity Social Workers Association of America, and the American Council for School Social Workers, to conduct a nationwide research of school psychological well being professionals on their preparation and practices associated to LGBTQ youth in faculties.
2013[edit]

- GLSEN convenes first-ever analysis symposia on LGBTQ college students' experiences and homophobic and transphobic bullying internationally on the World Comparative Education Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina - with greater than 15 countries, together with Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Cyprus, Israel, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Poland, Slovenia, South Africa, and Turkey. GLSEN, in partnership with UNESCO, also coordinates an all-day strategic planning meeting with the global group of experts to coordinate collective assets and reduce homophobic and transphobic prejudice and violence in schools globally.- GLSEN publishes Out Online: The Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth,[15] the primary nationwide report to look at the online expertise of LGBTQ youth. While LGBTQ youth expertise nearly 3 times as much bullying and harassment on-line, they also find higher peer help, access to health information, and alternatives to be civically engaged.- Transgender Student Rights, a youth-created grassroots organization, turns into a GLSEN program.- By youth nomination, GLSEN Executive Director Dr. Eliza Byard speaks at the Let Freedom Ring Commemoration and Call to Action event on the Lincoln Memorial, the place Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his well-known "I have a Dream" speech in 1963. Fellow audio system embody Presidents Obama, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter. GLSEN is the only consultant from an LGBTQ organization to speak at the occasion.
2014[edit]

- GLSEN partners with the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and the Association of Teacher Educators to analysis and assist the inclusion of LGBTQ points in trainer preparation.- The Office for Civil Rights within the U.S. Department of Education points official steerage making clear that transgender students are protected from discrimination beneath Title IX, stating that "Title IX's intercourse discrimination prohibition extends to claims of discrimination based mostly on gender identity or failure to conform to stereotypical notions of masculinity or femininity."- The GLSEN National School Climate Survey finds that college climate for LGBTQ college students has improved considerably over time, yet stays fairly hostile for many. LGBTQ students in the survey experienced lower verbal and bodily harassment based mostly on sexual orientation than in all prior years, and the bottom bodily assault based mostly on sexual orientation since 2007.- The Safe Schools Improvement Act,[7] federal legislation that might require colleges to undertake LGBTQ-inclusive anti-bullying policies, garners its highest assist yet, with 208 bipartisan co-sponsors within the U.S. House of Representatives and 46 in the U.S. Senate.
2015[edit]

- GLSEN's No Name-Calling Week generates practically 1,000,000 impressions of #celebratekindness on Twitter.- GLSEN and Chilean accomplice group Todo Mejora release a Spanish-language version of the GLSEN Safe Space Kit to be utilized in Chilean colleges.
2020s[edit]

2022[edit]

- GLSEN appoints Melanie Willingham-Jaggers as the group's first Black and non-binary government director.[16]
Campaigns and applications[edit]

GLSEN's Day of Silence[edit]

GLSEN's Day of Silence is a nationwide day of action that started at the University of Virginia in 1996 wherein college students vow to take a type of silence to call attention to the silencing effect of anti-LGBTQ bullying and harassment in schools. GLSEN's Day of Silence takes place in 8,000 U.S. schools every year and has spread to more than 60 countries.

GLSEN's No Name-Calling Week[edit]

Every January, 1000's of elementary and middle colleges participate in GLSEN's No Name-Calling Week to finish bullying. No Name-Calling Week was inspired by the popular young adult novel entitled The Misfits by common creator James Howe, and is supported by over 60 national accomplice organizations.

GLSEN's Ally Week[edit]

Every fall, GLSEN's Ally Week serves to coach allies in regards to the function they play in creating safer spaces for LGBTQ youth. Ally Week was began in 2005 by GLSEN's Jump-Start National Student Leadership team. Ally Week is supported by over 20 endorsers.

Think Before You Speak marketing campaign[edit]

On October 8, 2008, GLSEN and Ad Council launched the Think Before You Speak campaign, designed to end homophobic vocabulary and raise awareness concerning the prevalence and penalties of anti-LGBTQ bias and behavior in America's faculties among youth, by way of the use of television, radio, print, and out of doors advertisements.[17][18] The campaign also aimed to lift consciousness amongst adults, college personnel, and mother and father. It contains three tv public service bulletins (PSAs), six print PSAs and three radio PSAs. Television commercials for the marketing campaign embrace singer Hilary Duff as well as comic Wanda Sykes. In 2008 the campaign won the Ad Council's Gold Bell award for "Best Public Service Advertising Campaign".

GLSEN Research[edit]

GLSEN has been conducting analysis and analysis on LGBTQ issues in K-12 education since 1999. GLSEN became the only organization to often doc the school experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) middle and highschool college students within the U.S. using GLSEN's National School Climate Survey. Other analysis reports GLSEN has put out include From Statehouse to Schoolhouse: Anti-Bullying Policies in U.S. States and college Districts, Shared Differences: The Experiences of LGBTQ Students of Color in Our Nation's Schools, Harsh Realities: The Experiences of Transgender Youth in Our Nation's Schools, in addition to many different studies, articles, and e-book chapters.[19]

GLSEN National Student Council[edit]

The GLSEN National Student Council, previously recognized as the Student Ambassadors program, is one of GLSEN's student management teams.[20] Every year, GLSEN selects a small group of middle and high school college students to serve as GLSEN youth representatives for the upcoming faculty yr. Students of the National Student Council advise GLSEN on campaigns, convey GLSEN sources to their colleges, represent GLSEN in the media, and have their own work revealed in native and national outlets.

GLSEN Chapters[edit]

GLSEN Chapters, with the support and guidance of the national office, work to deliver GLSEN applications to their specific communities on an area level. Chapter board members and volunteers are students, educators, parents and neighborhood members who volunteer their time to help students and Gay-Straight Alliances, practice educators and provide opportunities for everyone to make change in their local colleges. GLSEN has 38 volunteer-led GLSEN Chapters in 26 states that work with student leaders, provide professional development for educators, and encourage policymakers to enact LGBTQ-inclusive insurance policies.[1]

GLSEN Respect Awards[edit]

GLSEN organizes the annual GLSEN Respect Awards to honor leaders, personalities, and organizations who have made important contributions to LGBTQ youth. Awards are given to organizations, celebrities, college students, educators and gay-straight alliances. Since 2004, there have been over four dozen honorees and over $15 million raised in all.[21][22] The first Respect Awards had been in New York in 2004 and honored Andrew Tobias, creator and Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee; MTV; and student Marina Gatto. Since then, the Respect Awards are held annually in New York in late May and in Los Angeles in late October. Since 2004, there have been over 4-dozen honorees and over $17 million raised.

Fistgate controversy[edit]

In 2000, the leader of the conservative Parents' Rights Coalition of Massachusetts (now known as MassResistance) secretly taped one of the 50 workshops in "Teachout 2000", titled "What They Didn't Inform you About Queer Sex and Sexuality in Health Class: Workshop for Youth Only, Ages 14-21".[23] Students discussed sex in a workshop "billed as a secure place for youths to get their questions about their sexuality answered" within the session's Q&A bit. A query was requested about fisting a minor and an evidence was supplied.[24] Greg Carmack subsequently steered that the question might have been planted by these making the recordings.[25] MassResistance dubbed the incident "Fistgate"[23][26] and the tapes generated controversy once they have been broadcast over radio.[27] A state worker who participated within the dialogue and was subsequently dismissed filed go well with in opposition to Camenker and Scott Whiteman because of the distribution of the tape recordings,[28] whereas others pointed out the legal prohibition towards recording folks without their knowledge or permission.[27] Based on Bay Windows, a "Massachusetts Superior Court decide dominated that the tape was illegally acquired and due to this fact an invasion of privacy in opposition to those people present, who have been never told they had been being recorded."[29]

See additionally[edit]

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References[edit]

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